ir-playbook-privilege-escalation SKILL.md skillA
ir-playbook-privilege-escalation from gensecaihq/wazuh-autopilot is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gensecaihq/wazuh-autopilot/ir-playbook-privilege-escalation@v2.1Pins v2.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gensecaihq/wazuh-autopilot
- Path
backend/app/skills/ir-playbook-privilege-escalation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v2.1, committed Sep 24, 2026
- Size
- 7,206 bytes
- Repository stars
- 63
- License
- MIT
Incident-response playbook for privilege escalation on Linux and Windows — sudo/su abuse, SUID and capability misuse, kernel modules and exploits, sudoers/cron/systemd tampering, UAC bypass, admin-group changes and process injection; use when Wazuh raises escalation indicators (e.g. rules 5404, 5405, 5302, 80721, 92046, 92055, 60154) or a user gains unexpected root/SYSTEM.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# IR Playbook — Privilege Escalation Severity **critical** when escalation succeeds. MITRE ATT&CK TA0004: T1548 (.001 SUID, .002 UAC bypass, .003 sudo), T1068 (exploitation), T1055 (process injection), T1053.003 (cron), T1543 (services), T1547.006 (kernel modules), T1098 / T1484 (account and group changes). Rule IDs are from the stock Wazuh 4.14 ruleset (levels official). Full procedure and forensic commands: `references/playbook.md`. ## 1. Detection signals | Signal | Wazuh rules (level) | Notes | |---|---|---| | sudo failures | rules 5401 (L5), 5404 (L10, three failures), 5405 (L5, user not in sudoers) | group `sudo` | | sudo to root / first-time sudo | rules 5402 (L3), 5403 (L4) | low level on their own — escalate when the user or command is unusual | | su to root | rules 5302 (L9, failed su to root), 5303 (L3, successful su to root) | group `su` | | auditd root transition | rules 80721 (L10, user becomes root), 80742 (L5, user ID changed) | requires auditd | | New user / group, account changes (Linux) | rules 5902 (L8), 5901 (L8), 5904 (L8), 2961 (L5, user added to group sudo) | group `adduser` | | Root crontab changed | rule 2833 (L8) | persistence after escalation | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add gensecaihq/wazuh-autopilot/ir-playbook-privilege-escalation@sha256:5cd6fec68d27949bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_tlz6v5gmbhiamlad)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 24, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7206 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
gensecaihq/wazuh-autopilot · 63 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tlz6v5gmbhiamlad GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gensecaihq/wazuh-autopilot/ir-playbook-privilege-escalation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5cd6fec68d27949bc76ba39cc54858783bfa2af9506c5a67f20d8403e0001615
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